“If Not Here, then Where?”

Having never, ever been a morning person, I always made my brother drive me to school my senior year of high school. I’d stare out the window and brood about while the countless yard signs of suburban Fairfield County, Connecticut, glided by one after another.  For as long as I’d lived in New Canaan, these […]

Underground Construction: What the Underground Construction Industry Means for California

In California, one in six construction workers has fallen into the underground economy. Source: Bloomberg/United States Department of Labor Imagine the underground. Dirt, rocks, dark tunnels. All activity is below the surface—subterranean. The underground is hidden, furtive, and secretive. Now imagine underground economic activity. Literally, it may be exchanges that take place below the ground, […]